if we were to start putting $$s into defense again (and the liberals
would squeal) and keep ISIS etc., busy fighting each other if we just
stirred them up against each other, we could improve our economy all
around. But instead we try to be nice so the bad guys will like us. LOL
- that'll never happen cause they want us dead! They're not going to
play nice with us. Not sure I'd advocate using nukes because the
prevailing winds tend to move the clouds all over the place.
I wonder if the end of "The longest Day' verbiage was accurate when they
had Patton saying we should go ahead and kick the Russians butt since
we'd have to do so eventually & we- might as well do it when we had the
resources in the area...
So many could have, should have, would haves, but we'll never know.
LarryT
91 300D
On 6/14/2015 2:43 PM, G Mann via Mercedes wrote:
The thing that made the Cold War work for both sides, what the element of
"mutually assured distruction" .. Simply put.. if either side started, both
sides had enough nukes and the means to deliver them that all life would
have been deleted from the face of the earth.
So.. bravado aside.. Gen LeMay knew he wasn't going to get that order.. and
his Russian counterpart knew it as well.. but both had to take the sabers
out and rattle them regularly to keep the "military / Industrial Complex"
fully employed.
Regan made a gutsy and brilliant move with his "star wars" plan, It drove
the Russians to bankruptsy trying to out guess [and steal] technology that
did not actually exist, but was close enough to "almost there" to make them
believe USA was capable of neutralizing any of their weapons delivery,
which tipped the balance that had been in place for decades..
However.. now we are headed down the same road to snatch defeat from the
jaws of victory, through gross financial mismanagement.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 10:32 AM, archer75--- via Mercedes <
mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
When the U.S. was flying nuclear bombs to the borders of the USSR and then
turning back at the last minute during the late '40s, General Curt LeMay
said we should keep right on going to Russian targets and nuke the
communists back to the stone age.
I wonder what the world would be like nowadays if someone had given that
command?
Gerry
Rich Thomas wrote:
I say we take off an nuke the whole site from orbit. It's the only way
to be sure.
On 6/13/15 7:28 PM, archer75--- via Mercedes wrote:
"....America won the Cold War in large part because the Russians knew
that American avionics would give NATO control of the air in any
prospective war; that the Pershing missiles in Germany and Italy gave NATO
an advantage in any prospective nuclear exchange; and that the Reagan
Strategic Defense Initiative portended a new range of technologies that
Russia couldn’t match. China looked on from a distance and aligned itself
with the dominant technological superpower.
If America wants to command China’s respect, it has to widen the
technology gap, rather than watch it shrink. If China believed that its
weapons systems were ineffective against American countermeasures, it would
show far more caution. But the opposite is true: the technology gap is
closing, and China knows it. America still has a technological lead and the
resources to widen it–should it choose to do so. There is no obvious
political constituency for such an effort though, and no prominent leader
commited to doing so. A return to the Eisenhower-Kennedy-Reagan commitment
to American technological superiority would also have enormously beneficial
effects for America’s lagging productivity. But it is hard to persuade
Americans that it is better to be tough than to sound tough.
Asia Times
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